This is not an April Fool's joke
Last year, we had covered Ken Pillonel's story of how he fought the odds and spent many hours understanding the iPhone's architecture to make the much-needed
. There are no marks for guessing that the reverse engineering project is also Pillonel's brainchild and although it is unlikely to make the same waves as his previous project, Pillonel wanted to do this just for fun. Sign up here for freeAs Pillonel said in the teaser video, one of the other aims of doing this project was to balance things out a little.
Overall, making the whole thing work together was another issue. Apparently, the lightning charging cables sold by Apple do not charge every lightning port they encounter. Instead, they confirm that the device being charged is an Apple device, so the project called for him to trick the cable into believing that his modified Android phone was indeed an Apple device.
The modifications are always difficult since they need to also fit right back into a commercial-grade phone with little scope for error. However, Pillonel is getting better at these mods with every single day and hasn't been exacting on the quality of finish for the Android phone, since he isn't
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